Governments and moral issues

[otago]

Do you believe in a small government that stays the hell out of your life ?
If so should they stay the hell out of your life on so called moral issues ?
Or are moral issues too important to be left to the individual ?
Should other entities have any input into who you sleep with and what you get up to in your bedroom ?
Other entities being say religions who have the belief that they know what is best for you in your bedroom.
So should governments stay out of your private life or should they be involved ?

 

[imperfect.la]

Of course government has some sort of influence in a person's personal life.

We regulate the food we eat, the drugs we consume, and other stuff to a certain extent.

The argument is not an argument of "if," but rather a "how much" argument.

And I don't think there's anyone arguing that a government should decide who you sleep with or what you do with em in bed. If you're referring to sodomy laws, most of them are found unconstitutional anyway and never enforced.

But on the other hand, the government determines you can not sleep with an underage person, which I completely agree with, and is a right role for government to determine this.

 

[GinandTonic]

I believe in small gov, but there are a lot of things the gov is best placed to do and there are services that benefit society as a whole. The gov should stay of of moral issues.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

I believe in a small government but there are a few areas where the government is needed. Without government babies will be murderd, acts of soddomy will be commited and race mixing will kill our people.

 

[cubsfan6506]

Look at al for what we should do stop in breeding.

 

[Cutlass]

Government should focus on activities where people are harmed by other people or events beyond control. Too much of the "morals laws" are subjective at best.

 

[bhsup]

Small government has nothing to do with moral legislation. Once an act is passed and is the law, it doesn't require the government to grow a new bureaucratic appendage to enforce the law. Existing law enforcement is already in place. Compare that to welfare legislation which would require more people to be hired to administer, pass out aid, etc.

 

[Trajan12]

The government should not legislate against anything done by a person that does not directly infringe upon another person's rights and harm that person(in some quantifiable way).

 

[kulade]

No acts should be illegal save the ones that harm someone who doesn't wish to be harmed. I for one, do not find it appropriate for the government to ban even suicide, hard drugs, or human-death-matches (as these acts only harm the willing) - most of those and more menial "moral" laws are mostly if not entirely unenforceable, anyway.

 

[Tycoon101]

The government should not legislate against anything done by a person that does not directly infringe upon another person's rights and harm that person(in some quantifiable way).

What he said.

 

[Berzerker]

government cannot legislate morality...cuz government is immoral. A necessary evil?

 

[BasketCase]

Should the government legislate on CO2 emissions? Yes--if you're an environmentalist.

Should the government legistlate on abortion? Yes--if you're a strong Pro-Life or Pro-Choice advocate.

Should the government legislate on gay rights? yes--if you're gay.

Should the government legislate on Affirmative Action? Yes--if you're black.

Should the government provide a private server for CFC? If you're a CFC member, you will definitely answer yes.

Now, if you happen to be a gay black Pro-Life environmentalist who posts on CFC every day.....well, that gets complicated.....


Ask the right questions, and just about anybody will answer yes--almost everybody thinks the government should be legislating morality. Where people disagree is on what morality the government should be legislating.

Government isn't a necessary evil--it's just plain necessary. The human body cannot survive without the brain (your brain doesn't actually DO anything, but you need it to survive). The Internet cannot survive without its domain name servers. Society cannot survive without government. If you hate governments, it's because those governments aren't passing the laws you want them to be passing. And in a world with 6.6 billion people, nobody is ever going to agree on what laws the government should be passing.

Likely, somebody in here thinks government shouldn't be passing any laws at all. To which I reply: how do you prevent people from forming governments and passing laws? Any agency powerful enough to prevent people from forming government bodies, is itself a government body. There's just no way around this. I'd say "sorry to bust your bubble", but I hate anarchists, am not sorry at all, and the real truth is I vastly enjoy busting their bubbles.

 

[innonimatu]

Likely, somebody in here thinks government shouldn't be passing any laws at all. To which I reply: how do you prevent people from forming governments and passing laws? Any agency powerful enough to prevent people from forming government bodies, is itself a government body. There's just no way around this. I'd say "sorry to bust your bubble", but I hate anarchists and the real truth is I vastly enjoy busting their bubbles.

By your login, an "earth government" is an historic inevitability, and we should already be living under one. If governments cannot be prevented from emerging, except by a larger organization, they must eventually grow to encompass all of humanity, under a single government, as soon as technology allows it.

 

[Perfection]

The government should not legislate against anything done by a person that does not directly infringe upon another person's rights and harm that person(in some quantifiable way).

You don't think the government should step in to prevent suicide?

 

[JohnRM]

Government isn't a necessary evil--it's just plain necessary. The human body cannot survive without the brain

If the government is the brain of our country, then our country is f-ing ********.

 

[warpus]

I believe in a medium-sized government and small fries. and a coke.

 

[imperfect.la]

If the government is the brain of our country, then our country is f-ing ********.

Funny cause it's true?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I believe in a small government but there are a few areas where the government is needed. Without government babies will be murderd, acts of soddomy will be commited and race mixing will kill our people.

Man, I hate to break it to you, but that stuff's gonna happen no matter what the government says about it. There's no way you can stop it without becoming a....wait for it............Nazi.

 

[Perfection]

Yeah, but it being illegal to kill babies makes baby killing a lot less common.

 

[Berzerker]

BC

Where people disagree is on what morality the government should be legislating.

When you can fund your government without taking other people's labor then we can talk about legislating morality.

Government isn't a necessary evil--it's just plain necessary.

Then you dont understand the nature of government, at the very least there is an implicit gun pointing at us if we dont do as told.

The human body cannot survive without the brain

Then humans spent several million years evolving without a brain